Privacy notice.

Privaj Scout for iPhone

The iPhone preview reads the same public model catalog and release briefs as this website. Native follows and read history are stored inside the app unless you turn off Remember follows & read history. Turning it off removes the saved copies; choices made during the current session remain in memory. Public catalog and release data is cached for offline reading. Read history is not uploaded. Followed interests stay on your phone unless you turn on release alerts as described below. Native records are not synchronized to another device. Device backups follow your operating-system settings.

App requests reach privajscout.com through Cloudflare. The connection and service-provider processing described below also applies to those requests. The native API client does not store HTTP cookies, and the native screens include no advertising or analytics SDK. The embedded comparison, performance, hardware, and policy pages load the actual website: its cookie notice and optional storage controls apply. The app blocks the current Cloudflare Web Analytics script and measurement requests inside embedded pages. Cloudflare connection and security processing still applies; opening a page in Safari uses the normal website analytics settings. Embedded website storage belongs to this app and is separate from Safari and native follows.

In app Settings you can export native follows and read history, turn off saving, or delete app data. Delete data from this app also turns off release alerts, requests removal of the server notification registration, and removes native follows, read history, downloaded caches, notifications, and embedded website data, including saved hardware reports and privacy choices. Export any hardware reports from My hardware before deletion. Public data can download again on refresh. Deleting app data does not delete Safari data, device backups, or support emails already sent.

The app does not create an account, run AI models, or request access to contacts, photos, location, microphone, or camera. Notification permission is requested when you choose a preview or enable release alerts. A preview is a local test only.

Who operates Scout

Privaj operates Privaj Scout, a model discovery and comparison website and iPhone preview app. Contact [email protected] for privacy questions, corrections, or requests. Privaj is an independent project without a public postal address, so the email above is the contact for all privacy matters.

Optional release alerts

When you turn on live alerts in a compatible app build, the app sends an Apple push token, a random installation identifier, and your followed model names/source links, makers, topics, and access/status filters to Privaj’s server. These details let the server match newly published release briefs to your interests. They are not used for advertising or cross-app tracking. Apple receives the device token and notification text to deliver alerts. Notification text can appear on your lock screen according to your iPhone settings. The preview button alone does not enroll you in live alerts.

Changing your interests while alerts are on updates the server’s saved choices. Turning off Remember follows also turns off live alerts. Turning off alerts or deleting app data removes the server’s token, interests, and queued deliveries after the removal request succeeds. If you are offline, Scout retains a minimal secure removal request on this phone and retries when reopened; server deletion is shown as pending. You can turn notifications off immediately in iPhone Settings. An alert already handed to Apple may still arrive.

Notification registrations expire after 90 days without renewal from the app. Delivery records and credential-hash deletion receipts are retained for at most seven days; deletion receipts prevent an in-flight request from restoring an opted-out registration and do not contain a token or interests. Short-lived request-limit counters expire within ten minutes. The private notification database is separate from public catalog backups and is not included in those backups. The app keeps its registration credential in this device’s Keychain, rather than in a transferable backup. It is removed after successful server deletion. Support can help with removal at [email protected].

What stays in your browser

Search, model comparisons, and hardware-report entry run in your browser. With optional storage off, your choices remain in page memory only. If you allow preferences, Scout saves selected models, followed makers, filters, comparisons, hardware settings, personal reports, and your last-visit timestamp on this device. These records are not uploaded to our server.

We store a small essential record of your privacy decision, valid for 180 days. Optional records stay until deleted or cleared by the browser. Read the Cookies & storage policy for the complete inventory and controls. We do not sell your personal data or use advertising trackers. Cloudflare Web Analytics is described below.

Website delivery and catalog updates

Scout runs on Privaj’s Lenovo server and is delivered through Cloudflare. Cloudflare processes connection information, including your IP address, requested URL, browser information, and security events, to deliver and protect the website. Request information can also reach our server. The application does not maintain a visitor account database. Cloudflare provides aggregate traffic reports and the browser measurements described below. Operational software can record errors and service events, which can include request details such as the requested page. Our server deletes these logs automatically after 30 days. Cloudflare keeps its own records under its policies.

The server retrieves public model metadata from Hugging Face and Models.dev and keeps the catalog and seven daily local backups. Those backups contain model information, not your browser’s saved models or hardware reports. Source requests do not include your searches, follows, or reports. Background catalog checks are separate from marketing or personal notifications.

Web analytics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand visits, page views, referring websites, device and browser types, country-level traffic, and page performance. Cloudflare adds a small measurement script to the public website. The current setting excludes visitors from the EU.

According to Cloudflare, these measurements do not use cookies, local storage, or fingerprinting to identify individual visitors. The script does not submit your saved hardware reports or preference records. The optional-storage switch controls Scout’s local preferences, not these measurements. See Cloudflare Web Analytics and its data collection documentation.

Our traffic report excludes detected bots. Visits are estimates, not a count of distinct people: repeat visits and testing may count, some bots may pass filtering, and browsers that block the script are missed. Analytics reporting and retention are handled by Cloudflare; we do not keep a separate database of identified visitors.

Contact and form information

Support links open an email draft. A message is sent only if you choose to send it in your email application. We then receive your email address, message, and any attachments through Gmail to respond to your request. Do not include passwords, API keys, payment details, or sensitive personal information.

The hardware-report form saves only to this browser, according to your storage choice. It does not submit a public report or subscribe you to anything. There is no newsletter, marketing mailing list, payment form, or account registration in this version.

Privacy settings let you withdraw permission for optional storage. Handling a support email is for responding to the request; it is not permission to send marketing. We keep support emails for up to 12 months after your request is resolved and then delete them, unless you ask us to delete them sooner or we need them longer to deal with a legal claim. Where laws such as the GDPR apply, we handle support email to take the steps you asked for and in our legitimate interest in responding to you.

Your controls and requests

You can change storage choices, export saved records, and delete Scout data in Privacy settings. Clearing browser data does not delete messages already sent to support. Email us to request access, correction, or deletion of support correspondence; we may ask for proportionate information to verify the request. Depending on the laws that apply, you may also have rights to object, restrict processing, obtain a portable copy, or complain to your privacy regulator.

Cloudflare, Gmail, and your own email provider may process information in other countries under their policies. Email providers may retain backup copies. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy for its data handling. Source websites apply their own privacy practices when you open their links. No third-party font service or media embed is needed to display this site.

Changes to this notice

We update this notice when data handling changes. New optional purposes will not be enabled under your old storage choice. Contact [email protected] with questions.